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10 Feelings You Experience While Visiting Home for Fall Break

*Sigh of Relief*

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10 Feelings You Experience While Visiting Home for Fall Break
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If you're on fall break, home from college, these are 10 feelings that you almost certainly are experiencing:

1. Regret.

Going two and a half hours away doesn't seem so bad until I have to make the drive to and from school. I always regret going to UMaine while driving on the highway for two and a half hours straight with nothing but trees for a view.

2. Relief

As soon as I walk through the door to my house I feel instant relief. Just knowing that I will be able to sleep in my own bed and eat home-cooked meals for the next couple days makes that drive so worth it.

3. Relaxed

I start to feel relaxed as soon as I sit around the fire with my family after eating a home-cooked meal. Just for the weekend I can forget about my loads of homework and studying I have to do once I go back to school.

4. Nostalgic

I always miss home while driving through town and seeing old restaurants and spots my friends and I used to hang out at. Seeing old friends from high school always brings back nostalgic feelings as well.

5. Unwelcome

The moment I walk through the door of our local breakfast place or house of pizza, I immediately feel like an outsider. My old group of friends was replaced by current high schoolers, and they do not want us back.

6. Unorganized

Not only did I bring home a huge duffel bag, but I brought along my big basket of laundry as well. Living out of a duffel bag for a few days makes it very hard to stay organized, and I always end up building up a huge pile of clothes on my bedroom floor.

7. Annoyed

Since I'm used to cleaning my room or doing my dishes on my own time, I hate being told when I have to do those chores. Although I love being around my family, I don't love not having the freedom that I have at school.

8. Uncool

Since I'm a big, bad college student, you would think I would feel so cool around the high schoolers, but instead I feel like the opposite. While visiting home, I'm back in high school territory, and they're the cool kids now.

9. Stressed

The night before heading back to school, reality sets in. I realize how much homework and studying I neglected to do throughout the weekend, and immediately I feel stressed to the max.

10. Thankful

While getting ready to head back to school, I can't help but feel sad to leave home again. I'll miss my bed, home-cooked meals, and most importantly my family. I'm so thankful to have a home that makes it so hard to leave each time.

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